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Florida voters, including the large Caribbean American pop - ulation, will face possibly their most clear cut choice in decades when they elect the state’s next governor. The pick is between Democrat Andrew Gillum, left, and Republican Ron DeSantis, page 2. Reggae/dance - hall star Chronixx was among the stars on show at the first “D.C. ~ Nationals from four Caribbean countries, World Reggae including two seniors, have been arrested Festival”, which and charged with voting illegally in the 2016 delivered a prom - election in the United States. According to ising launch in Washington, D.C. last month, despite a controver - the U.S. Department of Justice, five accused sial letdown at the final act, Caribbean nationals are among 20 foreigners indicted so far, page 3. page 15. - Photograph by IAAF/Getty INSIDE News ...... 2 Tourism/Travel ...... 12 Classifieds ...... 17 Feature ...... 7 Food ...... 13 FYI/Local ...... 18 Viewpoint ...... 9 Arts/Entertainment ...... 14 Sports ...... 19

read Caribbean today onLine at Caribbeantoday.Com • CARIBBEAN TODAY • SEPTEMBER 2018 2 Over 10,416,000 copies printed and delivered in 29 years NEWS BATTLE LINES DRAWN: It’s Gillum versus DeSantis for Florida governor GORDON WILLIAMS American governor. On pri - Democrats who were split dur - mary night, the candidate who ing the 2016 presidential pri - Florida voters, including the supports the impeachment of mary between Sanders and large Caribbean American pop - United States President Donald Hillary Clinton. Gillum sup - ulation, will face possibly their Trump and vowed to replace ported Clinton, who beat most clear cut choice in decades the Immigration and Customs Sanders but lost the presidency when they elect the state’s next Enforcement (ICE) agency, to Trump. governor in a couple months. said he represents everyone in Gillum has called Trump Following the Aug. 28 pri - the state. “unqualified” and a “bad” pres - mary elections, two 39-year-olds “I’m going to be the next ident. He said Trump has “com - emerged to represent their governor of Florida,” Gillum, pletely disrespected” people of political parties - Democrat who was endorsed by demo - color in the U.S., pointing to the Andrew Gillum and Republican cratic socialist U.S. Senator president’s reference to Haiti Ron DeSantis. Bernie Sanders, told a national and some African nations as On Nov. 6 voters will television network post-pri - “shit hole” countries. decide who will hold the highest mary. “I just happen to be “We’re going to make political office in Florida. black … The way we were clear to the rest of the world Gillum’s victory was viewed going to win this race is letting that the dark days that we’ve voters know I’m gonna be the been under, coming out of as a “shocker”, since the only Gillum, left, and wife R. Jai on election night reportedly “non-millionaire” in governor for all.” Washington, that the derision and the division that has been the race, as Gillum called him - Republican congressman from drawn,” said Scarborough. self, never led the primary polls. ‘TRUMP CULT’ coming out of our White His November opponent is Florida, said DeSantis has Early reports indicated House, that right here in the He also raised far less campaign “bought into the Trump cult.” In Gillum secured support across support money than main rivals a candidate firmly backed by state of Florida we are going to Trump. The Trump-DeSantis his first words as the Republican the state, including South remind this nation of what is Gwen Graham, a former con - nominee, DeSantis expressed Florida counties such as Miami- gresswoman, Philip Levine and connection was displayed in a truly the American way,” series of broadcast advertise - gratitude to his top backer. Dade and Broward, which are Gillum told supporters. Jeff Greene. “Thank you, Mr. heavily populated by Caribbean Gillum, the mayor of ments during the primary cam - DeSantis almost immedi - paign. President,” he told the crowd in Americans. ately mired himself in a racial Florida’s capital city Orlando. “I gotta tell you all I am Tallahassee, won just over 34 DeSantis, a conservative firestorm after the primary. Iraq War veteran who supports overwhelmed,” an elated Appearing on Fox News , percent of the votes cast, TURNOUT Gillum said on election night according to preliminary results. Trump’s agenda, including DeSantis, referring to Gillum, building a border wall and The Florida governor pri - He’s confident Florida’s said: “The last thing we need to Graham followed with 31 per - maries drew a large voter diverse population would rally cent, Levine 20 percent and repealing the Affordable Care do is to monkey this thing up by Act signed into law by former turnout – combined, well over to his message in November. trying to embrace a socialist Greene 10 percent. three million – between “We fully anticipate we’ll If elected in November, President Barack Obama, agenda with huge tax increases secured 56 percent of the votes Democrats and Republicans. be able to capture the hearts and bankrupting the state.” Gillum, viewed as a progressive The numbers were almost and minds and consciousness” liberal who supports diversity, to trounce closest rival Adam Florida Democratic Party Putnam with 36 percent. equally split between the par - of the voters, said Gillum. Chairwoman Terrie Rizzo fired single-payer health insurance ties. The choices, however, are and higher wages, will become Television commentator Joe Scarborough, a former not that close. UNITY (Continued on page 6) Florida’s first African “The battle lines have been He vowed to unite Over 10,416,000 copies printed and delivered in 29 years CARIBBEAN TODAY • SEPTEMBER 2018 • 3 NEWS CAUGHT: Caribbean nationals charged for illegal 2016 election voting in U.S. Salvador, Germany, Italy, indicted. dent via the Electoral College, The task force is being led Japan, Mexico, Nigeria, The DOJ made its but lost the popular vote to by the Department of Panama, the Philippines and announcement on Aug. 24. rival Hillary Clinton by three Homeland Security Poland were also charged with President Donald Trump million. Immigration and Customs illegal voting. A Korean claimed widespread voter According to the DOJ, Enforcement division and the national, who up to press time fraud in the 2016 U.S. elec - the voting violations were dis - Diplomatic Security Service in the Justice Department hadn’t tion. Trump did not provide covered by a new federal task the U.S. State Department. identified as being from the any evidence to back his force in the Eastern Judicial 4 North or South, was also claim. He was elected presi - District of North Carolina.

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Nationals from four Caribbean countries, including two seniors, have been arrest - ed and charged with voting illegally in the 2016 election in the United States. According to the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), five accused Caribbean nationals were among 20 for - eigners indicted. Among the charges are claiming, falsely, to be U.S. citizens and registering to vote and “voting by an alien”. A person must be an American citizen to vote in the U.S. Caribbean nationals were among nine indicted in North Carolina by a federal grand jury. They are Elvis David Fullerton, 54, from Grenada, 71-year-old Olive Agatha Martin of Guyana, and 35- year-old Sarah Emilia Silverio-Polanco of the Dominican Republic. They were charged with falsely claiming to be a U.S. citizen so they could register to vote and then attempting to vote. If found guilty, they will face up to six years in prison, a possible $350,000 fine and supervised release if they serve a prison term. Some could be deported, although reports indicated that maybe not all of them understood they were not eligible to vote.

PLEA The Dominican Republic’s Ramon Esteban Paez-Jerez, a 58-year-old deportee who returned to the U.S. under a fake identity and was granted U.S. citizenship in 1999, was also indicted for passport fraud and voting by an alien. He pleaded guilty and could be imprisoned for up to 11 years and fined $350,000. Meanwhile, Dieudonne Soifils, a 71-year-old Haitian national, was indicted for “voting by an alien” and faces up to a year in prison, at least Visit FPL.com/BeatTheHeat and take the a $100,000 fine and supervised Online Home Energy Survey for your chance to win. release. Soifils, one of nine in the group of foreign nationals indicted who is a legal perma - nent resident of the U.S., has had a “green card” since 1976. According to the indictment, he also voted in the 2012 and 2016 U.S. elections. Nationals from El • CARIBBEAN TODAY • SEPTEMBER 2018 4 Over 10,416,000 copies printed and delivered in 29 years NEWS T&T celebrates 56th anniversary of Independence PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad – Rowley said the anniversary of the leaders of our fight for Trinidad and Tobago observed Independence provides citi - Independence envisioned its 56th anniversary of political zens with another opportunity more than half a century Independence from Britain on to reflect on the meaning of ago?” she said, claiming T&T Aug. 31 with the traditional citizenship and the value of its faces significant issues. military parade and differing national identity. Caribbean community statements from politicians “In many countries people (CARICOM) Secretary regarding the socio-economic do not enjoy the freedoms we General Irwin LaRocque paid development of the oil-rich may be tempted to take for tribute to the creativity and twin island republic. granted,” said Rowley. “That dynamism of T&T’s people President Paula Mae our democracy has remained and the “significant contribu - Weekes urged citizens to con - intact these 56 years is no tions” the country has made tinue ensuring the develop - small feat. This deserves cele - to the regional integration ment of the country. bration given our status as one process. “Fellow citizens, on 31 of the most multi-cultural soci - United States Secretary of August 1962, Trinidad and eties in the western world.” State Michael Pompeo praised Tobago shook off the reins of the relationship between colonialism and dared to go it AHEAD Washington and Port of Spain. alone,” Weekes explained. Opposition Leader Kamla “We are grateful for the However, Weekes asked, Persad Bissessar said the continued strong partnership considering the current chal - Independence anniversary as our countries work to lenges of crime and the econo - provides an opportunity for deepen cooperation on trade, my, plus the island’s use of the “assessment of our progress energy, and opportunity for London-based Privy Council as and the difficulties that still lie all,” Pompeo said. its final court, the world econo - ahead. my and global climate change, “The question must be - Edited from CMC. how independent T&T is. asked: Have we achieved the 4 Prime Minister Dr. Keith Trinidad and Tobago which Ex-Caribbean soccer boss’s U.S. lock-up delayed again NEW YORK – For the eighth tion in international soccer. tencing is likely to take place time, a disgraced former soccer The Cayman Islands in Mar. 2019. boss from the Caribbean has national was due to be sen - Webb, who is also wanted had his prison sentencing tenced last month, but that was in the Cayman Islands, had delayed. re-scheduled scheduled for been named in a 47-count Jeffrey Webb, the 54-year- next year. indictment announced by the old ex-president of the Webb has been under U.S. Department of Justice, Confederation of North, house arrest in the U.S. for with Trinidadian Austin Central America and most of the time since his “Jack” Warner, a former Caribbean Association guilty verdict and has already CONCACAF chief and long- Football (CONCACAF) and agreed to forfeit more than serving FIFA vice president former vice president of world $6.7 million. also included. soccer’s governing body FIFA, However, he was able to pleaded guilty in Nov. 2015 to secure the latest postpone - For more sports, turn to racketeering, wire fraud and ment through his lawyer Ernie page 19. money laundering conspiracies Gao, who asked prosecutors to 4 in the United States-led crack - push sentencing back by six down on bribery and corrup - months. This means that sen - N.Y names street to honor Haitian revolutionary NEW YORK – A street in Jean-Jacques Dessalines doing, created the first free Brooklyn has been renamed to Boulevard. black republic in the Western honor Haitian revolutionary The unveiling ceremony Hemisphere and the second leader Jean-Jacques took place last month in the independent country in the Dessalines. boulevard situated in the heart region right after the United New York State Assembly of Little Haiti BK (Brooklyn). States of America gained its member Rodneyse Bichotte, “Jean-Jacques Dessalines Independence in 1776. daughter of Haitian immi - is an individual whose histori - “With this street co-nam - grants, and New York City cal importance is difficult to ing, we are undoing in a con - Council member Jumaane D. understate,” said Bichotte. crete and tangible way cen - Williams, son of Grenadian “He was a man who led turies of the trivialization of immigrants, were instrumental the first successful slave revolt our history,” said Bichotte. in the renaming of the street in world history and, in so 4 Over 10,416,000 copies printed and delivered in 29 years CARIBBEAN TODAY • SEPTEMBER 2018 • 5 NEWS Puerto Rico hurricane deaths Jamaica wants to double U.S. farm, hospitality workers Minister of Labor and Social this figure,” said Robinson, Secretary of State for thousands more than reported Security Shahine Robinson “as this program is important Consular Affairs in the wants to increase the seasonal to the Jamaican worker and to Department of State Carl The official death toll from work program for Jamaicans the economy as well as to the Risch; and Assistant Secretary last year’s devastation of in the United States. U.S.” of Homeland Security Puerto Rico by Hurricane Robinson made the Michael Dougherty. Maria has been raised to announcement last month VISIT The minister and her del - almost 50 times the number after a meeting with officials Robinson, egation made an official visit first reported on the in the U.S. departments of along with to the U.S. Aug. 13–17, toured Caribbean island, a new labor, state and homeland State Minister farms in Albany, New York, report released late last security in Washington, D.C. in the Ministry where she met with over 60 month has stated. According to the minister, of Labor and workers and employers, some According Puerto Rico from all indications the U.S. Social Security of whom have been with the Robinson Governor Ricardo Roselló, response to Jamaica’s request Zavia Mayne, program for over 40 years. 2,975 deaths are now linked Roselló was positive. were in the She also visited hotel workers to the hurricane, which At present there are 7,000 U.S. capital where discussions at Sea Island Resort in smashed into the island in governor as official, make Jamaicans participating in the were held with U.S. Deputy Georgia, which employs over Sept. 2017, up from 64 origi - Maria the deadliest natural program in the U.S.: 4,981 in Under Secretary for 170 Jamaicans under its hospi - nally announced. disaster in the United States the farm work program and International Affairs in the tality program. The new statistics result - for more than a century. 1,693 in hospitality. Department of Labor Martha 4 ed from an independent study The new study focused on “I am looking to double Newton; U.S. Assistant commissioned by Roselló and deaths between Sept. 2017 published by researchers at and Feb. 2018, including those George Washington caused by absence of commu - U.S. indicts Barbados politician on money laundering University’s Milken Institute nication, missing guidelines Donville Inniss, a former house in Tampa. He was Inniss, a legal permanent resi - School of Public Health. Just certifying deaths and lack of Barbados minister of industry, released on a $50,000 bond. He dent of the U.S. residing in weeks before the announce - preparation for a hurricane of international business, com - has pleaded not guilty. Tampa and Barbados, allegedly ment, Puerto Rican officials Maria’s power. merce and small business devel - A three-count indictment leveraged his position as minis - conceded that Maria was The governor accepted opment, was last month indict - was unsealed in federal court in ter of industry to enable the responsible for more than his government’s failure to ed in the United States for con - Brooklyn, New York. Barbados company to obtain 1,400 deaths on the island. A establish effective strategies to measure the death toll, spiracy to launder money and According to the indict - two government contracts. He study by Harvard University, money laundering, following his ment, between Aug. 2015 and allegedly concealed the bribes released in May, estimated despite claims by U.S. President Donald Trump that alleged acceptance of bribes April 2016, Inniss engaged in a by arranging to receive them 4,645 were killed by the hurri - from a Barbadian insurance scheme to accept approximately through a dental company and cane. the death toll was much lower because the government had company in 2015 and 2016. $36,000 in bribes from high- a bank located in Elmont, New implemented adequate meas - Inniss, 52, was arrested level executives of an unnamed York. OFFICIAL Aug. 3 and arraigned before insurance company headquar - ures. The statistics released last 4 U.S. Magistrate Judge Julie tered in Barbados and launder - Edited from CMC. month, and accepted by the Sneed in the Middle District of that money through the U.S. 4 Florida at the federal court - In exchange for the bribes, • CARIBBEAN TODAY • SEPTEMBER 2018 6 Over 10,416,000 copies printed and delivered in 29 years NEWS SO SORRY: Britain apologizes for wrongfully deporting Caribbean nationals LONDON, England – Britain The review significantly adjusted the way compensation they deserve,” has apologized to 18 people found that the 18 it is calculating the total. Javid said. who were deported to the people were “most But observers say the “We must do everything Caribbean or detained likely to have suf - adjustment of the calculation we can to ensure that nothing because they could not pro - fered detriment will prove controversial among like this happens again, which duce documents to prove their because their right Windrush campaigners, who is why I have asked an inde - right to live in the United to be in the U.K. argue that if someone has the pendent adviser to look at Kingdom. was not recog - right to citizenship, then it is what lessons we can learn Home Secretary Sajid nized” and Javid wrong to deport them, even if from Windrush,” he added. Javid, who said their treatment said that these were they have spent long periods The update, issued in a was “completely unaccept - the cases he out of the country or commit - letter to the home affairs able,” on Aug. 21 apologized believed his ted an offense. select committee, stated that for the situation after a pro - “department is 2,272 Windrush generation tracted analysis of almost most likely to have UNACCEPTABLE people had been helped to get 12,000 immigration cases. acted wrongfully”. Many Caribbean nationals arrived in the U.K. on the “The experiences faced by the documentation needed to London published a new ‘Windrush’. some members of the prove their right to be in the estimate of the number of CONTACT another seven who were Windrush generation are com - U.K. Some 1,465 people had people deported in error to The Home office said that detained but not deported. pletely unacceptable and I am been granted citizenship or the Caribbean as part of the it has been in contact with 14 The figure of 18 is lower committed to righting the other documentation to prove government’s commitment to of the 18 people and were try - than the 63 previously estimat - wrongs of the past. I would their status under the scheme. provide monthly updates on ing to contact the others. It ed to have been wrongfully like to personally apologize to how it is handling the continu - said that the most serious removed from the country. those identified in our review - Edited from CMC. ing fallout from the so-called cases include 11 people who However, the government has and am committed to provid - 4 “Windrush” scandal. were wrongly deported and ing them with the support and BRIEFS U.S., Bahamas agree to U.S. lawmakers talk ener - as a “fact-finding” mission, pre - Ex-USVI senator convicted longed consul - joint narcotics fight gy, border in Guyana sented a geographic overview of of wire fraud tation with the The Bahamas and the United Issues related to the oil and Guyana, its hemispheric affiliations A former United States Virgin leadership of States have pledged to continue gas sector as well as the border and shared borders; a strategic Islands senator has been convicted the two branch - joint efforts in the fight against commentary outline, which outlined the of wire fraud and theft of U.S. fed - es of the French corruption with the signing of an with Venezuela Guyana/ Venezuela border contro - eral program funds for “taking Caribbean amendment on Narcotics Control were discussed versy, territorial controversy with money ostensibly being used to nation’s and Law Enforcement between when Guyana’s Suriname, Guyana’s international fund a historical research project.” Parliament. relations and the migration of Céant, 62, both governments. President David The U.S. Department of Justice Céant The Eighth Amendment to the Granger and a Venezuelans into Guyana; an eco - said Wayne A.G. James, 56, of St. replaces Jack Letter of Agreement on Narcotics government nomic overview, which dealt with Croix, was convicted of two counts Guy Lafontant, Control and Law Enforcement was team met last the traditional sectors, the emerg - of wire fraud and one count of who resigned following recent signed last month during a cere - month with a ing oil and gas sector and theft of federal program funds. protest action after the government Guyana’s pursuit of a “green” announced an increase in petrole - mony at the Office of the Prime visiting delega - Granger Sentencing has been set for Dec. Minister. tion of United agenda and environmental conser - 20. um products. The measure was Under it, the U.S. will provide States congressmen and other vation. later withdrawn. over $1.4 million for law enforce - American officials. The visit represented the Haiti names new P.M. ment professionalization support, According to a statement from largest team of U.S. congressmen President Jovenel Moise has - Compiled from various rule of law, transparency and anti- the Ministry of the Presidency, to ever visit Guyana. named Jean Henry Céant Haiti’s sources. corruption reform in The Bahamas. Granger, who described the visit new prime minister, ending pro - 4 BATTLE LINES: It’s Gillum versus DeSantis for Florida governor

(Continued from page 2) Democratic nominee said he’s clear of any wrongdoing. back at the “monkey” refer - DeSantis is expected to ence. hammer Gillum on his record “It’s disgusting that Ron as mayor, a post he’s held since DeSantis is launching his gener - 2014, and his proposed policies al election campaign with racist if he became governor. dog whistles,” she noted in a “(Gillum) is way, way too statement to the Huff Post news liberal for the state of Florida,” agency. said DeSantis, who vowed to Several other prominent focus on illegal immigration, Democrats blasted DeSantis. A jobs, education and the environ - few Republicans called his ment. His campaign has accused statement unfortunate. The Gillum of wanting open bor - Open MONDAY FRIDAY, 9:00 am – 4:30 pm statement stoked the fire of ders. resentment many hold towards However, like Gillum, If you are looking for a primary healthcare provider and a quality Trump, who owns homes and DeSantis may be confronted by businesses in Florida, and won experience, contact us to schedule an appointment today! a federal probe. His link to the state in the presidential Trump could become a major race. talking point as the investiga - However, there has been tion into the president’s con - no Democratic governor of duct, especially over the Florida since the 1990s. involvement by Russia in the 2016 election, by Special U.S. PROBES Justice Counsel Robert Mueller, Meanwhile, City Hall in continues. 7200 W. Commercial Blvd, Suite 201 4849 Lake Worth Road Tallahassee is under probe for Lauderhill, FL 33319 Greenacres, FL 33463 corruption by the Federal - Various sources contributed (954) 748-6665 (561) 433-4446 Bureau of Investigation (FBI). to this story. The investigation is focused on Nous parlons français Nou pale kreyòl Hablamos Español a friend of Gillum, but the 4 Over 10,416,000 copies printed and delivered in 29 years CARIBBEAN TODAY • SEPTEMBER 2018 • 7 FEATURE CRACKDOWN: U.S. threatens citizens, residents with deportation GORDON WILLIAMS Congresswoman Yvette Clarke, However, status. whose parents are from potential “green Caribbean nationals, many who Jamaica, blasted Trump and his card” holders CAMPAIGN for decades have legally made immigration policy. are not the only The New York Times the United States their home, “In the White House, we non-U.S.-born reported in July that “Since may be among targets of a gov - have a man who is not of sound residents President Trump took office, ernment crackdown which mind, morals or values who has attracting the number of denaturaliza - could force them, including made decisions and implement - heightened tion cases has been growing, some naturalized citizens and ed policies that have been a full scrutiny. part of a campaign of aggres - permanent residents, to leave frontal assault, an attack on our Naturalized U.S. sive immigration enforcement the U.S. humanity and our livelihoods – citizens who are that now promises to include Several recent reports indi - decisions that benefit only suspected of even the most protected class cate the administration of those at the top, the one per - obtaining that of legal immigrants: natural - President Donald Trump has cent like himself,” said Clarke, status through ized citizens.” ratcheted up efforts to punish during a recent address in her fraudulent The Times also reported immigration violations, which Brooklyn, New York con - methods, such that the U.S. Citizenship and could lead to deportation of stituency. U.S. authorities are clamping down on some immigrants. as failing to Immigration Services (USCIS), thousands from the U.S. She highlighted “the report their which deals with citizenship by Stephen Miller, a senior The government’s new, Trump Administration’s racist involvement in a crime, terror - and residency applications, is adviser to the president. aggressive push includes mak - ‘zero tolerance’ policy of crim - ism, using fake identities or “opening a new office to inves - Miller’s plan, which was still ing it more difficult for persons inally prosecuting migrants at engaging in staged marriages tigate thousands of potential being finalized early last month, already living legally in the U.S. the southern border” and when applying for citizenship, denaturalization cases involv - reportedly doesn’t need to be to become permanent residents moves to shutter programs have also become targets. ing identity fraud, even as it sanctioned by the U.S. or “green card” holders, if they, which benefit Caribbean More than 21 million peo - approves more new citizenship Congress. It is designed “to for example, are found to have immigrants, such as Deferred ple are believed to be natural - applications than before. limit the number of migrants benefitted from certain public Action for Childhood Arrival ized U.S. citizens, thousands USCIS also intends to refer who obtain legal status in the assistance programs, including (DACA), Development, from the Caribbean. While the more cases for possible depor - U.S. each year,” the news Social Security Insurance, food Relief and Education for U.S. Supreme Court has ruled tation, and to give citizenship agency reported last month. stamps and “Obamacare”, the Alien Minors (DREAM) Act that persons could not be adjudicating officers more dis - According to some esti - health insurance program and Temporary Protected stripped of naturalized U.S. cit - cretion to deny applications mates the policy, which if imple - implemented under the Status (TPS). izenship if found guilty of they consider ineligible or mented would be a massive Affordable Care Act signed minor deceptions committed incomplete.” shift in U.S. enforcement con - into law by previous President PLAN during application, the Trump Caribbean nationals are duct, could affect more than 20 Barack Obama. According to NBC News administration is aggressively already being affected by the million immigrants, including The crackdown has sources, parts of the Trump stepping up attempts to find Trump immigration crackdown. Caribbean nationals, especially received some public backlash. administration’s immigration those who would be eligible to NBC News reported, for exam - those in low paying jobs who Caribbean American policy are being orchestrated be stripped of their citizenship require government assistance. (Continued on page 8) Caribbean think-tank revives push for Garvey’s U.S. pardon

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Institute for Caribbean Studies (ICS) here has resurrected the notion of a United States presi - dential pardon for Jamaica’s first National Hero Marcus Mosiah Garvey. The think-tank is conduct - ing a poll on whether U.S. President Donald Trump should pardon Garvey. In a message posted on its website last month, the ICS gives viewers two options Garvey regarding the proposed par - don: “Option 1: Ask President Excellent Marcus Mosiah Trump for a pardon (this Garvey remains elusive, unre - assumes Garvey did something solved and unfinished business, wrong); or option 2: hold out we must continue our educa - for exoneration (this assumes tion and organizing efforts in Garvey did nothing wrong).” the pursuit justice for the leg - In Jan. 2017, Caribbean endary icon,” said Clarke, American Congresswoman daughter of Jamaican immi - Yvette D. Clarke, who had grants, who represents the 9th taken the lead, with 17 other Congressional District in members of the U.S. House of Brooklyn, New York, told the Representatives, in calling on Caribbean Media Corporation then outgoing President (CMC). Barack Obama to posthumous - ly pardon Garvey, had PERSECUTION expressed disappointment with She said it was important Obama’s non-action. On his that “we build upon the efforts last day in office, Obama grant - waged over the years, most ed commutation of sentence to recently in pursuit of a presi - 330 individuals, with Garvey dential pardon, and that we not included. Garvey was con - continue to maintain and ele - victed for mail fraud in the vate the integrity of” Garvey’s U.S. in 1923. contributions to American his - “While the exoneration tory. and/or pardon of the Right (Continued on page 8) • CARIBBEAN TODAY • SEPTEMBER 2018 8 Over 10,416,000 copies printed and delivered in 29 years FEATURE Soccer fraternity, friends bid farewell to Jamaican ‘Mutty’ Scott in U.S. PATRICK SMIKLE at the Merrell “He was the player who Calabar, St. Jago and Tivoli United Methodist marshaled the defense,” Comprehensive. In 1976, Soccer players he competed Church in Melbourne said. “And as the Tivoli won the Manning Cup, with at various levels of the Lauderdale Lakes, captain, he brought out the the championship for game, including Jamaica’s Florida, and later at best in the other players.” Jamaica’s Corporate Area high national team, remember the nearby Garden schools. Delroy “Mutty” Scott as not Restaurant, when PLAYER/COACH In 1968, when the North just an outstanding defender Scott’s family, When Duncan retired, American Soccer League and midfielder, but a motiva - friends and former Scott became Cavalier’s play - (NASL) was launched in the tor. teammates gathered er/coach. His talent and lead - United States, Scott was one Those Scott coached to both bury and to ership skills were also exhibit - of the first Jamaicans recruit - remember him not just as an praise him. ed at the national level. He ed. He played four seasons exemplary teacher, but also a Scott succumbed played for and with the Atlanta Chiefs, disciplinarian and mentor. to cancer on July 24. captained a matching skills with interna - His friends claim he could successful tional stars such as Brazil’s seem reserved and introspec - STANDOUT Jamaica Pelé and Carlos Alberto, and tive. When you got to know At Jamaica’ national team Germany’s Franz him, however, “he was a lot of club level, Scott was Mutty and Pele from 1965 to Beckenbauer. one of the founding 1969, emerg - Before he migrated to the fun and easy to talk to.” Sydney Bartlett and Henry Scott’s brother Alton players at Cavalier, put ing, some afi - U.S., Scott worked as a sales together by legendary manag - Largie, two of the best players cionados representative at Sports and “Monty” Jackson remembers in the history of the Jamaican him as being a kind, caring sib - er/coach Leighton Duncan in insist, as one Scott Games store in Kingston. He 1962. To hear New York- game. of the coun - is also survived by his partner ling, and extremely protective Scott stood out. According of his three children - Mark, based sports radio commenta - try’s greatest players. Lena Williams and five grand - tor John Melbourne tell it, this to Melbourne, who played for He coached Cavalier’s children. Karen and Andrea (who pre- Cavalier, undergirding the deceased him). was the most colorful team to under-19 team to victory and emerge on the Jamaican soc - team’s success was a solid guided young players at sever - Patrick Smikle is a freelance Those were some of the defensive line led by Scott. opinions heard from the pulpit cer scene since the YMCA of al high schools, including writer for Caribbean Today. For more sports, turn to page Caribbean think-tank revives push for Garvey’s U.S. pardon 19. (Continued from page 7) Hoover, and that ultimately led and self-determination were of the University of the West 4 to the frivolous charges, prose - critical to the movements for Indies (UWI). “His is a case of unjusti - cution and persecution against independence in Africa and the “Marcus Garvey was the fied persecution that continues him.” Caribbean and to the Civil victim of trumped up charges to cry out for justice,” said Clarke said it was “all in Rights Movement here in the orchestrated by the late J. Clarke, stating that Garvey an attempt to displace” Garvey United States,” the letter Edgar Hoover, the famously was “widely viewed as the “from the positive role he states. anti-black director of the US’s Street Address: Father of the 20th Century played in advancing the civil Despite that legacy, mem - Federal Bureau of Investigation 9020 SW 152nd Street Civil Rights Movement. and human rights in American bers of Congress lamented that (FBI),” explained Sir Hilary in Miami, FL 33157 Tel: (305) 238-2868 “His leadership and intel - history.” Garvey “has never been fully a statement, calling on Obama, lectual contributions inspired (305) 253-6029 exonerated from racially-moti - “himself the victim of racist Fax: (305) 252-7843 the movements for independ - INSPIRATION vated charges of mail fraud. campaigns to de-legitimize his ence in Africa and the Toll-Free Fax: 1-866-290-4550 In their letter to Obama, “Recognizing that prosecu - presidency, to exonerate 1-800-605-7516 Caribbean,” Clarke said. the congressional representa - tors and the government mis - Garvey before he leaves office. www.caribbeantoday.com “However, it was the tives noted that Garvey, who handled the case, President A global petition campaign Send ads to: establishment of the UNIA was born in St. Ann’s Bay, had Calvin Coolidge commuted the demanding that Garvey’s U.S. [email protected] (United Negro Improvement “inspired generations of lead - sentence at the earliest possible federal record be expunged Association) here in the ers, from the Reverend Dr. opportunity,” the letter notes. had generated tens of thou - Vol. 29, Number 10 • SepT. 2018 United States and its affiliates Martin Luther King, Jr. to The congressional repre - sands of signatures. throughout African Diaspora President Nelson Mandela. sentatives’ call came on the nations that drew the ire of the Peter A Webley “His efforts to organize the heels of a similar one, issued in - Edited from CMC. Publisher FBI (Federal Bureau of African Diaspora across Nov. 2017, by Professor Sir 4 Investigation) under J. Edgar nations in support of freedom Hilary Beckles, vice chancellor MArIlyN CHIN CRACKDOWN: U.S. threatens citizens, residents with deportation Account Executive (Continued from page 7) could lose permanent resi - holders in fiscal year 2016, the reject the false and inaccurate dence and be deported. final one under the Obama claims of those who would ple, that Haitian-born Louis lorNA ASeNCor administration. Over 753,060 rather the U.S. turn a blind eye Accounting Manager Charles, a U.S. permanent resi - VULNERABLE became naturalized U.S. citi - to cases of illegal immigration, dent, was denied citizenship Haitians in the U.S. were zens during that period, accord - fraud, human trafficking, gang after it was discovered he used already feeling vulnerable ing to USCIS. activity and drug proliferation public benefits to help his under the Trump administra - The number of successful at the expense of public safety, SAbrINA MoSS daughter, who is disabled. tion, which announced the permanent resident approvals the integrity of our laws and Production/Graphic Design Charles, a nursing assistant end of TPS for thousands who have plummeted under the their faithful execution.” working in Massachusetts, survived the devastating 2010 Trump administration, report - That, according to Bars, admitted to entering the U.S. earthquake in the French edly set to decline by up to 20 means “an eligible applicant Opinions expressed by editors and in 1989 with a fraudulent pass - Caribbean nation. percent during the first quarter must have been properly admit - writers are not necessarily those of port. He said he told U.S. Meanwhile, criminal of fiscal year 2018. The rate of ted for permanent residence in thepublisher. Caribbean today, an authorities about it and was records of thousands of immi - naturalizing U.S. citizens has order to become a U.S. citi - granted a waiver, which independent news m agazine, is grants, including naturalized remained relatively stable, zen.” published every month by allowed him to become a per - citizens, are still being checked, although the Times reported Under an immigration law Caribbean Publishing & Services, manent resident in 2011. according to reports. Findings USCIS “expect naturalization dating back to the 1800s, defin - However, the 55-year-old’s citi - from those could lead to more numbers to rise in the latter ing “public charge”, the U.S. Inc. Caribbean today is not zenship application was reject - people being stripped of legal half of the year based on previ - can reject persons wishing to responsible for unsolicited manu- ed last September. immigration status. ous trends.” become citizens or residents if scripts or photos. To guarantee “I was devastated,” Miller’s plan has been sent The USCIS has claimed it they are deemed a burden to return, please include a self- Charles told NBC News. “And to the White House Office of evaluates all applications for the state. addressed stamped envelope. I'm not sure exactly why they Management and Budget, NBC naturalization “fairly” and has Articles appearing in Caribbean did it. I did everything they reported. That is normally rec - not changed the way it has - Multiple sources contributed asked me to.” today may not be reproduced ognized among the last stages evaluated applications. to this report. without written permission of He said the USCIS before implementation. However, according to a state - 4 the editor informed him it will review his More than a million immi - ment by Michael Bars, a . case, especially the waiver. He grants became “green card” USCIS spokesperson, “We Over 10,416,000 copies printed and delivered in 29 years CARIBBEAN TODAY • SEPTEMBER 2018 • 9 VIEWPOINT President’s next targets Caribbean American congresswoman condemns are students, overstays Trump’s ‘full frontal assault’ on U.S. immigrants administration’s racist ‘zero and Education for Alien MIAMI, Florida - The adminis - deported if they don’t leave tolerance’ policy of criminally Minors (DREAM) Act legis - tration of United States voluntarily. President Donald Trump is The USCIS statement prosecuting migrants at the lation was introduced in the pushing full steam ahead with warned “it is incumbent on the southern border.” U.S. Senate, in 2001, as a its immigra - non-immigrant to voluntarily bipartisan bill. Its aim was to tion policy to leave the United States to WORST provide a means for undocu - essentially avoid accruing more unlawful Clarke said this particular mented Caribbean and other “clean house”. presence.” policy “calls to mind the worst immigrants who arrived in the Now the The administration will of our history, including the U.S. as children to gain a target appears also apply the same rules to internment of Japanese pathway to permanent legal to be students student holders of the J-1 or Americans during World War status. whose visas exchange visitor visa. The II, our refusal to grant safety Individuals who would may have Department of State, which to Jewish refugees during the have qualified under the ended, as well administers the program, will Trump is on the attack. Holocaust and the treatment DREAM Act are often as those who also need to reinstate the visa of slaves during the Middle referred to as “Dreamers”. FELICIA J. NEW YORK – Caribbean came in on a PERSAUD or if its denied, the J-1 visa Passage from Africa, and cen - But Clarke said Trump visitor’s visa holder will be considered American Congresswoman turies of chattel slavery and “hasn’t stopped there,” refer - and stayed on. undocumented and should Yvette D. Clarke has forced and imposed state ring to the U.S. president’s Recently, the Department leave the country or be launched a scathing attack on sanctioned segregation.” “full frontal” attacks on immi - of Homeland Security, (DHS) deportable. United States President The congresswoman grants. released its “Fiscal Year 2017 Francis Cissna, new USCIS Donald J. Trump’s immigra - lamented that children are “But be not dismayed,” Entry/Exit Overstay Report”, director, also reiterated the tion policies, describing them now being shipped all over the Clarke said. “We, the people, which identified all overstays, Trump administration’s mantra as ongoing assaults on immi - country, including to New have great power. We can including of foreign-born stu - when it comes to “illegal immi - grants. York City, “where there were defeat this racist, xenophobic, dents, from across the world. gration”. “In the White House, we at least 239 children being sexist, and frankly un- The number was around “USCIS remains dedicated have a man who is not of detained just a few miles from American agenda.” 700,000, with 45,000 alone from to protecting the integrity of sound mind, morals or values my district and thousands of “As a community, we the Caribbean region, accord - our nation’s immigration sys - who has made decisions and miles away from their care - must utilize our resources to ing to a News Americas report. tem and ensuring the faithful implemented policies that givers.” strengthen our families and The message seems clear – execution of our laws. People have been a full frontal Clarke also said the stay in the communities we this was the next target in the who overstay or violate the assault, an attack on our Trump administration is have chosen, labored in, and Trump-Stephen Miller xeno - terms of their visas should not humanity and our livelihoods “trying to undermine” the call home, regardless of what phobic plan. Miller is a Trump remain in the United States,” – decisions that benefit only Deferred Action for policies are coming out of the adviser. Cissna added in the statement. those at the top, the one per - Childhood Arrival (DACA) White House,” she added. On Aug. 9, the U.S. “Foreign students who are cent like himself,” said Clarke, program, “which puts 800,000 “Let us remember the Citizenship and Immigration no longer properly enrolled in the daughter of Jamaican ‘Dreamers’ at risk of deporta - thousands of Brooklyn resi - Services (USCIS) published a school are violating the terms immigrants, in delivering the tion.” She said there are cur - dents who desire a path to cit - revised final policy memoran - of their student visa and should keynote address during a rently over 42,000 izenship but whose livelihoods dum related to unlawful pres - be held accountable.” recent awards ceremony at the ence of student visa holders. “Dreamers” in New York, are being threatened by the Jamaican-owned Spiritual most of which are enrolled in Trump administration and not Under the memorandum, SPEEDING UP Baptist Church in Brooklyn, effective Aug. 9, 2018, holders The announcement came school or employed. take this opportunity for New York. granted. of the F-1 and M-1 visas, or as U.S. Attorney General Jeff “Brooklyn continues to non-immigration student visas, Sessions on Aug. 16 sought to ‘DREAMERS’ be in the bulls-eye of his The Development, Relief, (Continued on page 9) which allow international stu - speed up the deportation of administration’s most cruel dents to study and live full-time illegal immigrants, telling and inhumane attacks,” added in the U.S., were essentially put immigration judges they should the representative for the 9th on notice. only postpone cases in removal Congressional District in proceedings “for good cause ROUND UP shown.” Brooklyn. Any F-1 or M-1 visa hold - Sessions, in an interim “The immigrant commu - er who falls out of status will order that was criticized by nity is no exception. I have now have a five-month window some lawyers, said the “good constituents who are ‘green to re-apply and get it reinstat - cause” standard “limits the dis - card’ holders from the very ed. However, if the reinstate - cretion of immigration judges countries listed on Donald ment application is importune - and prohibits them from grant - Trump’s immoral and unjust ly denied, the students will be ing continuances for any rea - Muslim ban.” considered an undocumented son or no reason at all.” She said family separation on the day after the denial and at the U.S.-Mexican border is could be rounded up and (Continued on page 10) “a direct result of the Trump

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access it, you don’t have a complaints of misconduct by choice. Justice must be afford - county prosecu - able and swift” – Barbados tors. Prime Minister Mia Mottley dis - cusses access to the Caribbean “Despite our Court of Justice. achievements in • “In the White tackling the HIV House, we have • “This bill, for epidemic, we are a man who is sure, is a direct not done. not of sound attack on a seri - Everyone in mind, morals or ous, and surely society must know and under - values who has unintended flaw stand and believe that HIV is made decisions in our criminal not a death sentence and, fur - and implement - justice system ther, understand that persons ed policies that have been a full that contributed living with HIV who have sup - frontal assault, an attack on our to New York State’s unenviable pressed virus due to treatment humanity and our livelihoods” reputation as a leader in con - are not infectious” - Professor – Caribbean American victing innocent men and Clive Landis, chairperson of the Congresswoman Yvette Clarke women, often times due to the Caribbean Cytometry and expresses her concerns about unscrupulous misconduct of a Analytical Society, believes there U.S. President Donald Trump. handful of bad prosecutors is inadequate understanding across our great state, who among the general public about • “Freedom is cared more about getting a con - how successful treatment can choice and if you viction rather than justice” – also reduce sexual transmission. don’t have a Caribbean-born New York state choice you don’t Assemblyman Nick Perry wel - - Compiled from various have freedom, and comes legislation that will create sources. if you can’t afford a commission to investigate 4 and you cannot Caribbean American congresswoman condemns Trump’s ‘full frontal assault’... (Continued from page 9) This may sound cliché, but stake,” she said. the elections in November “We must make citizen - may be some of the most - Edited from CMC. ship a priority,” Clarke urged. important elections in our “We must get out to vote. 4 lifetime. There’s so much at President’s next targets are students, overstays (Continued from page 9) policy being pushed by the Just read El Trumpeto’s administration. Twitter feed. But unlike the federal Blinded by xenophobia, judiciary system, U.S. immi - the administration is kicking - Edited from News Americas. gration courts fall under the out people who can contribute Felicia J. Persaud is CMO at Department of Justice and the to the development of this Hard Beat Communications, attorney general can inter - country after being educated Inc., which owns the brands vene. Sessions, obviously here at U.S. universities for at NewsAmericasNow, under the direction of the least five years. CaribPRWire and White House, is trying to find How dumb and short- InvestCaribbeanNow. every loophole in the law to sighted is this? 4 enforce the “zero tolerance” No need to answer that. Over 10,416,000 copies printed and delivered in 29 years CARIBBEAN TODAY • SEPTEMBER 2018 • 11 • CARIBBEAN TODAY • SEPTEMBER 2018 12 Over 10,416,000 copies printed and delivered in 29 years TOURISM/TRAVEL Grenadian gets CTO’s ‘Distinguished Caribbean Citizen Award’ United announces historic “The Caribbean Tourism migrated to the U.S. in 1972, Organization recognizes Dr. worked for several years as an Roy Hastick for his longstand - administrator, community flights to St. Kitts/Nevis ing commitment to represent - advocate, entrepreneur and BASSETERRE, St. Kitts ing the interests of Caribbean newspaper publisher. Through – For the first time in St. people at the New York City his involvement with organiza - Kitts and Nevis’s history, and state levels,” Riley said. tions in Brooklyn, “Hastick United Airlines will fly a “His steadfast endeavors recognized the need for the second weekly nonstop to strengthen commercial Caribbean community to flight from its New York links between the Caribbean unify in support of one anoth - hub at Newark Liberty and the region’s diaspora are er in order to improve the International Airport, particularly worthy of com - quality of life for everyone,” complementing the carri - mendation,” he added. “And CTO said. er’s existing Saturday serv - More flights to meet demand. for that reason, we have Because of his work in the ice. bestowed the ‘Distinguished small business community, Minister of Tourism, Newark and St. Kitts. Racquel Brown, chief Riley, right, presents the award to Caribbean Citizen Award on CTO noted that Hastick was International Trade, Industry Hastick. him.’” appointed honorary Brooklyn and Commerce Lindsay Grant executive officer of the St. ambassador by Brooklyn said last month that the addi - Kitts Tourism Authority, said NEW YORK – The ‘THRILLED’ Borough President Eric L. tion of a mid-week flight having the Wednesday flight Barbados-based Caribbean The Grenadian-born Adams. marks yet another historic first gives travelers more flexibility Tourism Organization Hastick said he was “excited CTO said Hastick has for the twin-island federation in their vacation planning and (CTO) has conferred its and thrilled” to receive CTO helped grow the New York this year. provides increased capacity “Distinguished Caribbean special award, describing CTO statewide membership organi - “I could not be more during the period when Citizen Award” on Dr. Roy as “a prestigious association zation to over 1,700 and pro - pleased to welcome this addi - demand is highest. A. Hastick, founder, president that promotes tourism in the vides expertise in providing tional service, which increases “This is a testament to the and chief executive officer of region throughout the world.” business assistance to small the available options for visi - success of our work to grow the Brooklyn, New York- “For over 33 years, start-up and emerging busi - tors and Diaspora to get to North American airlift from based Caribbean American CACCI has been promoting nesses in business planning, island during peak travel sea - key gateways in order to Chamber of Commerce and trade, investment and tourism financing, procurement, son from the New York metro - accommodate new hotel devel - opments and existing hotel Industry (CACCI). between the United States preparation for certification politan area, which is our pri - product upgrades,” she said. The CTO said its and the Caribbean, as well as and business expansion, mary source market for United first began serving Secretary General Hugh Riley helping thousands of small tourism, and export/import arrivals,” he said. St. Kitts in Dec. 2015 and con - bestowed the honor during a businesses in the New York opportunities. recent CACCI small business ROUND-TRIP tinues to operate non-stop metropolitan area survive and Saturday flights from Newark. development power breakfast thrive,” Hastick said. - Edited from CMC. For the Jan. 9, 2019 to meeting in Brooklyn. CTO said Hastick, who Mar. 6, 2019 period, United 4 will operate a total of nine - Edited from CMC. scheduled round-trip, non-stop 4 Wednesday flights between Delta steps up, American cuts flights to Caribbean PORT AU PRINCE, Haiti – New York. Haiti welcomed the announce - Delta’s new routes will ment by Delta Air Lines that include daily non-stop flights it planned to increase the between JFK and Kingston, number of daily flight to the Jamaica, as well as the new French-speaking Caribbean weekly service on Saturday to community (CARICOM) Antigua and Port-au-Prince, country after another United Haiti. States-based airline said it was In addition, Delta is reducing its flights. expanding its service to The American Airlines has Bahamas with a second daily decided to reduce the number flight between JFK and of daily flights to Haiti from Nassau. The expanded Nassau six to four. That puts an end to service will be launched on flights connecting Toussaint Oct. 1 and the new Kingston Louverture International flights will begin operating Airport of Port-au-Prince to Dec. 20. those of New York-JFK and The flights from Antigua Fort Lauderdale. and Haiti will be launched on However, Delta Air Lines Dec. 22, 2018. said it plans to open three new routes and an additional daily - Edited from CMC. flight to the Caribbean from 4 U.S. relaxes Cuba travel WASHINGTON, D.C. – The means “exercise normal pre - United States Department of cautions” and Level 4 means State has toned down its trav - “do not travel”. el advisory for Cuba. Under the revised The State Department travel advisory, the State last month reduced its adviso - Department urged Americans ry to the Spanish-speaking to “exercise increased caution Caribbean island from Level in Cuba due to attacks target - 3, “reconsider travel”, to ing U.S. Embassy Havana Level 2, “exercise increased employees resulting in the caution.” drawdown of embassy staff.” According to the State 4 Department ratings, Level 1 Over 10,416,000 copies printed and delivered in 29 years CARIBBEAN TODAY • SEPTEMBER 2018 • 13 FOOD Cayman Islands exports iguana meat to U.S. Sweet, refreshing tamarind drink to its subsidiary in the and development, but could With the heat stifling in many U.S., to be processed for be an avenue for the Cayman United States cities, here’s a sale online. Islands to make a profit by recipe for a refreshing “Currently the export getting rid of its unwanted Caribbean beverage that is also is for human consump - iguanas. healthy and a good liver tion,” said Maria Yapelli, She said the company cleanser – the tamarind drink. a founder of the busi - aims to start on a small scale, ness. targeting a niche food market Ingredients Green iguana “Once we get the dog in the U.S., and hopes to gen - • 2 cups tamarind pulp food and dog treats erate a strong enough cus - • 2 quarts boiling water GEORGE TOWN, Cayman • 2 tablespoons sugar (to Islands – The Cayman Islands going, we will be able to take tomer base to ship 500 pounds field-slaughtered animals; of iguana each week – equiva - taste) Tamarind drink has shipped over 200 pounds • honey (optional) of iguana meat to the United then we would be talking lent to about 200 iguanas. about 2,000 pounds per Environmental officials • 2 tablespoons lime juice (to Strain the tamarind water States, a move that the private taste) (optional) through a strainer or clean sector says could help in tack - week.” say 14,000 iguanas need to be killed in order to make an cloth. Dilute with more water ling the problems posed by Method and add more sugar or honey the invasive species. INVESTMENT impact on the invasive species. She said processing igua - In a teakettle bring water to taste. Refrigerate and serve The meat of the green to a boil. Place the tamarind over ice. iguana was recently shipped by na meat for dog food would - Edited from CMC. require investment in research 4 pulp in a heatproof mixing As variations, a few the company Spinion Limited bowl or baking dish. Add lime spoonfuls of cinnamon, vanilla, juice if using it. or grated ginger may be com - Pour boiling water over bined with the tamarind pulp Cassava pone - a tasty Caribbean dessert treat the tamarind. Stir in sugar before the water is added. Pone is considered a dessert • 2 eggs Pour the mixture into a and/or honey. Cover and allow and is a tasty treat made from • 3 cups milk well-greased shallow baking to stand several hours or - Edited from News Americas. cassava root or yuca. • ¼ lb. shortening (melted) pan or dish. Glaze with sugar overnight. 4 You can purchase cassava • ½ teaspoon orange peel and water. pone at many Caribbean • 1 teaspoon salt Bake at 300°F for 90 min - American and Caribbean bak - • 1 teaspoon vanilla essence utes or until a skewer comes Tennis serves Jamaican taste eries, but making your own is • 1½ teaspoon mixed spice out clean. The Jamaica Tourist Board from the city’s leading chefs. always best. Here’s our recipe Remove from oven and (JTB) recently showcased the Among those who attended for cassava pone: Method allow to cool for 10 minutes, island’s decadent flavors at the were U.S. tennis star Sloane Mix the dry ingredients then slice into squares and 19th annual “Citi Taste of Stephens, who joined Jamaican Ingredients together in a large bowl. enjoy. Tennis” event in New York City. Chef Wenford P. Simpson. The • 3 cups grated cassava or In a separate bowl, com - The event was a precursor chef served an array of special - yuca root bine the melted shortening, - Edited from News Americas. to the U.S. Tennis Open and this ties, including an open-faced • 2 cups grated coconut milk, beaten eggs and essence. 4 year the event brought together jerk chicken slider with pickled • 1½ cup sugar Add the wet ingredients the world’s best tennis players red cabbage and mango chutney. • ¼ lb. seedless raisins to the dry and mix well. and featured signature cuisine 4

publix.com/order FOR A LIMITED TIME Some exclusions apply. See store. • CARIBBEAN TODAY • SEPTEMBER 2018 14 Over 10,416,000 copies printed and delivered in 29 years ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT LIGHTS, CAMERA, ACTION: Foreign filmmakers flock to Jamaica Overseas-based filmmakers That’s up from J$745 million 124 international film profile productions filmed in are focusing their lens on the previous year. productions took place Jamaica over the period, Jamaica and the Caribbean According to Robinson, it in Jamaica over the including ‘Caribbean’s Next nation’s economy is basking in was the first time the figure period and generated Top Model’, and we were for - the benefits from the lights, had exceeded JA$1 billion 2,781 jobs. tunate enough to shoot the camera and action. and the expenditure is the She said the commis - entire season,” said Robinson. According to Renée value of the budget that inter - sion is able to differen - “We also shot an episode Robinson, film commissioner national productions spend in tiate and segment the of ‘The Amazing Race Israel’ at the Jamaica Promotions Jamaica. types of productions and an episode of ‘Marvel’s Corporation (JAMPRO), the “So, this would be to hire that are shot on the Luke Cage’,” she added. local film industry has con - cast, crew, drivers, rental of island by tracking Robinson said other tributed a record J$1.2 billion equipment, anything that is through the film regis - prominent productions (one Jamaica dollar = part of the production process tration process. included the “Pretty Bird” US$0.008 cents) in expendi - that is being spent in Jamaica,” music video for Beyoncé and ture to the local economy dur - she added. Robinson GENRES Jay-Z; “Perfect Places” music ing fiscal year 2017 to 2018. According to Robinson, “Documentary pro - video by Lorde and “Candice ductions led the genres, Patton” by America’s Next with 35 documentaries filmed Top Model celebrity guest in Jamaica over the period, up judge Kelly Cutrone. from 17 in the previous year, “So, there has been quite and TV productions followed a bit of activity in the local with 24, up from 15 in film industry as we tracked 2016/17,” Robinson said. the various international pro - Three feature films were ductions that come into the shot on the island: “Yardie”, island and the local personnel directed by Idris Elba; “Like and services that they utilize Father” and “The Intent 2”. for their projects,” said For the first time, a webisode Robinson. production was also filmed in Jamaica. - Edited from CMC. “We also had some high- 4 Cuban town declared a ‘World Craft City’ HAVANA, Cuba – The town of During the World Crafts Trinidad, located to the south - Council’s visit to the southern east of here, has been declared municipality of the city last a “World Craft City” after an month, Uruguayan Alberto de extensive evaluation process by Betolaza, president of the the World Crafts Council. organization for Latin America, Roberto Ponce, director of said that craftwork of the past is the Cuban Fund for Cultural kept alive in the Caribbean Property at Sancti Spíritus, con - Museum City. firmed the news recently. He These expressions of handi - said in June the third village crafts are the livelihoods of sev - founded by the Spaniards on eral generations of Trinitarians, the island was visited by mem - most who have drawn on the bers of the World Council from knowledge of collectives that 11 countries. have been trained to teach the Ponce said the Trinitarian traditions, he added. creations have crossed the city’s Citiesin China, India, Iran, borders and today projects Chile and Denmark also hold a works of the world-famous similar status. Santander family or the work - shop of Yudit Vidal Faife, - Edited from CMC. among threads, wings and brush - 4 es, clay, paintings and fabric. Caribbean carnival heats up The carnival spirit has hit the Central Broward Regional Park in Caribbean diaspora and multiple Lauderhill, Florida. events marking the celebration are • Oct. 7 - Miami Broward One coming up. Caribbean Carnival at the Miami- Here is a listing of some Dade County Fair and Exposition, remaining events: Inc., University Park in South • Sept. 11 - Hackney Caribbean Florida. Carnival in Hackney, England. A junior carnival is scheduled Includes a parade and street arts. for Sept. 29 and a steel pan com - • Oct. 5 petition on Oct. 5. The j’ouvert cel - Miami Jouvert Cooler Fete at ebration is on Oct. 6. Soca Kingdom Arena, 318 N.W. *Oct. 8 – Foam Wet Fete Party, 23rd St., Miami, Florida. America’s Backyard, 200 W. Carnival Fete at Krave Lounge, Broward Blvd., downtown Fort 4519 N. Pine Island Road, Sunrise, Lauderdale, Florida. Florida. 4 • Oct. 6 – D’Ultimate Day Fete, Over 10,416,000 copies printed and delivered in 29 years CARIBBEAN TODAY • SEPTEMBER 2018 • 15 ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT Chronixx, Shabba, Kes shine at first ‘D.C. World Reggae Festival’ ...But Toots and the Maytals’ performance cut short GORDON WILLIAMS drawn out - musical clash of favorites was “Ain’t No Giv- deejays exchanging verbal vol - ing In”. “Likes”, a tribute to a WASHINGTON, D.C. - The leys over recorded reggae genre’s finest, past and pres - first “D.C. World Reggae classics followed the soca sam - ent, also drew wild cheers. Festival” delivered a promis - ple. It served as the prelude to “We fi put the music first, ing launch here last month, one of the festival’s biggest dancehall,” Chronixx said. despite a controversial let - attractions. Enter Shabba The crowd roared its down at the final act. Ranks, who hit the stage approval. His act featured a With an estimated crowd around 7:50 p.m. and, for bright cameo by his father. of more than 5,000 fans in close to an hour, unleashed a With reggae’s old school mas - attendance at the RFK rough and rugged barrage of ter up next, Chronixx made Stadium parking lot basking in classic dancehall hits. clear he too looked forward to buoyant vibes and near-per - Kicking off with his now Toots and the Maytals. fect weather, the festival famous self-introduction - But those who remained boasted some of Caribbean “Ah me, man! Big dutty stink - were left wanting. Toots, music’s top talent, including ing Shabba!” - the veteran dressed in a colorful outfit of rising star Chronixx, dancehall showered the crowd with hits red, black, green and gold, hit legend Shabba Ranks and such as “X Rated”, “Trailer the stage roughly 10 minutes soca boss Kes the Band. Load A Girls” and “Ting-A- before 11 p.m. - festival cut off However, fans who stayed Ling”. He also combined with time. He was barely into his for show closer Toots and the guest artistes to resurrect Toots set, with classics like “Monkey monster duets of the past, Man” and “54-46”, when the Maytals left disappointed “Don’t get too dirty,” when time constraints restrict - Shabba including “Telephone Love” show abruptly ended. and “Mr. Lover Man”. Shabba reminded himself ed the reggae/ska legend to a crowd, which jumped and Not surprising, Shabba aloud. “No, no, no … don’t ISSUES couple songs. waved flags under the intoxi - spiced his set with a tinge of slack it up.” Festival presenters Off the stage, the festival, cating spell of Caribbean “slackness” as well. Backed by The crowd lapped it up. claimed Toots was originally organized to celebrate rhythms. Jamaica’s 56th anniversary of the Ruff Kutt band, the dee - scheduled to perform much jay waded into temptation ter - CHRONIXX earlier. The plan, they said, Independence, also captured ‘TO THE WORLD’ ritory, shouting “Love Shabba departed, leading was for Toots to represent the the seductive charm of “Love it up and spread it punaany bad!”. to the highly anticipated 1960s-70s era, followed by Caribbean culture, including around the world!” band - “If you love pum pum, entrance of Chronixx. Shabba of the 1980s-90s, cul - vendors selling food, artifacts leader Kes urged as fans rev - seh pum pum!” Shabba bel - The 25-year-old, who minating with current star and clothing. Yet it was the eled in the pulsating island lowed to the crowd, which proudly stakes his roots in Chronixx. music which demanded most beat. “… Caribbean music to responded: “Pum pum!” Spanish Town, Jamaica, is a The dispute upset the run - attention on a day forecast to the world!” However, he skillfully clear banner bearer for reggae ning order as Shabba and bring rain, but instead show - An entertaining - but and dancehall’s latest genera - ered excitement on a lively avoided calamity. Chronixx declined to change tion. He didn’t disappoint. their set times to earlier, Backed by Zinc Fence band, according to promoter Omar ‘Write It Now’ highlights Caribbean’s impact on literature Chronixx took the audience Stephenson, and Toots on a stimulating journey of remained in his bus at the PATRICK SMIKLE Jamaican Marlon James was roots and culture, belting out time he was reportedly sched - awarded the Man Booker hits as the crowd eagerly sang uled to take the stage. This month, four Caribbean Prize to add to the National along. American authors will facili - Book Critics Circle Award for Among the biggest (Continued on page 16) tate a writers’ workshop in Fiction. South Florida. Earlier this year Lorna “Write It Now” will be Goodison, another Jamaican, held on Sept. 8 at the South added Yale University’s Funerals and Cremations For Less Regional Broward College Windham-Campbell Prize to Library in Pembroke Pines. the Commonwealth Poetry Caricom Area Serviced, Caribbean Owned and Woman Managed Geoffrey Philp, Christine Prize for the Americas, which Jamaica Funeral Shipping from $2,200.00 (plus airfare) Craig, Malachi Smith and she won in 1986. Other Caricom Countries from $3,000.00 (plus airfare) Judith Faloon-Reid are sched - Smith Belize/South America Burials in Florida with Cemetery Space uled to host workshops, which DOUBTS from $6,000.00 are being sponsored by the Philp, who has published nov - However, the contribu - Louise Bennett-Coverley els, short stories and children tions from Caribbean writers Caskets to go 305-642-6234 Heritage Council (named for books, will facilitate. A fourth have not always been greeted 305-910-4169 the Jamaican folklorist and workshop on independent with acclaim. Often their cri - poet), in association with publishing will be conducted tiques of the status quo have NATIONAL FUNERAL HOME Friends of the South Regional by Faloon-Reid, a poet, been seen as threats to those Locations in Miami, Broward, Brooklyn-N.Y. Broward College Library. screenwriter and filmmaker. who hold economic and politi - “The workshop is cal power. designed to help writers expe - IMPACT Still, Eric Williams’s rience a sense of community The impact of Caribbean “Capitalism and Slavery”, with other Caribbean writers,” writers on the world’s literary published in 1944, was Smith, a dub poet who will landscape is nothing new. For described as a ground-break - host a workshop on perform - almost 100 years novelists, ing work, explaining how the ance poetry, told Caribbean playwrights, poets, historians, system of forced labor by Today. “We want to help them sociologists, teachers and enslaved Africans built the move their work up to anoth - politicians with Caribbean economies of Europe and the er level. Help them identify, roots have chronicled and cri - United States. Marcus correct and improve on any tiqued the experiences of the Garvey’s poetry was integral weaknesses in their work.” region’s people at home and to his efforts to promote “Write It Now” will also abroad, to local and interna - black consciousness. include a poetry workshop tional acclaim. In books like “The conducted by Craig, whose The late St. Lucian Derek Wretched of the Earth” and published works include “All Walcott and Trinidadian V. S. “Black Skins White Masks”, Things Bright” and “Quadrille Naipaul won the Nobel Prize published in the 1950s, for Tigers”. Another work - for Literature in 1992 and shop will deal with fiction. 2001, respectively. In 2015 (Continued on page 16) • CARIBBEAN TODAY • SEPTEMBER 2018 16 Over 10,416,000 copies printed and delivered in 29 years ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT T&T’s V.S. Naipaul, Nobel Prize winner, dies V.S. Naipaul, the Trinidadian- Nobel Prize in Literature in Booker Prize in 1971. In 2010 and earned him many literary born Nobel Prize-winning nov - 2001. Queen Elizabeth II knighted awards. He was acknowledged elist, died last month in Britain. The Swedish Academy, Naipaul. as a master in the use of lan - He was 85. which grants the award, said the The Caribbean community guage.” Naipaul, who was born writer “In a vigilant style, trans - (CARICOM) mourned “His unsparing critique of Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul forms rage into precision and Naipaul’s death. CARICOM post-colonial societies across the in 1932 near Port of Spain and allows events to speak with their Secretary General Irwin globe was the basis of much of lived mostly in Britain, won the own inherent irony.” LaRocque described him as a his work and provoked a great prolific author of both fiction deal of thought and discussion.” and non-fiction, whose works 4 “elicited much critical acclaim Naipaul The judges called Naipaul’s 1987 work “The Enigma of BRIEFS Arrival” a “masterpiece”. Miss Miami Broward Carnival Carnival Parade, which takes place Naipaul published his first Pageant on Brooklyn’s Eastern Parkway on book, “The Mystic Masseur”, Miss Miami Broward Carnival Labor Day, died early last month. He in 1957. He also wrote “Miguel Pageant, the official pageant of Miami was 75. Street”, “A House for Mr. Broward Carnival, is seeking young Biswas”, “The Loss of El women between ages five and 25 to Caribbean shows set for Dorado”, which offers a colo - be a part of this year's competition. Atlanta area nial history of Trinidad, and The pageant will be held Sept. 22 . Atlanta and its suburbs in Georgia “Beyond Belief: Islamic For contestant applications, visit will host a few shows with Caribbean Excursions among the www.missmiamibroward.org. flavor in the coming weeks. Converted Peoples”, which On Sept. 22 , the “Legends in focused on the eastern regions Concert” will be staged at Lithonia of the Islamic world. Mr. Vegas album launch City Park, Lithonia. Among the sched - Naipaul, who traced his Jamaican dancehall artiste Mr. Vegas heritage to Hindu immigrants will celebrate the release of his latest uled headliners are Lt. Stitchie, from India, moved went to album – and 20 years of music – on Richie Stephens and J.C. Lodge. England at age 18. He attended Sept. 15 in South Florida. On Oct. 13 , “Let’s Go Dancin’” Oxford University. The launch is set for Krave, will be held at the Atlanta Stone 4519 N. Pine Island Rd., Sunrise. Ridge Event Center. Fab 5 band, Gem HONORS Doors open at 9 p.m. Myers and Migraine are among the While he was well known scheduled performers. for the Nobel Prize, Naipaul West Indian American Day received other major literary Carnival boss dies Compiled from various sources. honors as well, including the William R. “Bill” Howard, president of 4 the West Indian American Day ‘Write It Now’ highlights Caribbean’s impact on literature (Continued from page 15) writers are Antigua’s Jamaica Kincaid; Barbados’s Edward Martiniquan psychiatrist and Kamau Brathwaite, Hilary philosopher Frantz Fanon Beckles and George explored the dehumanizing Lamming; Haiti’s Edwidge effects of colonialism on Danticat; Guyana’s Fred Caribbean people. The works D'Aguiar; Jamaica’s Opal of Aimé Césaire, also from Palmer Adissa, Lillian Allen, Martinique, continued that Colin Channer, Christine discourse. Craig, Kwame Dawes, Pamela Jamaican-born poet and Mordecai, Orlando Patterson, novelist Claude McKay (1890- Geoffrey Philp, Leone Ross, 1948) is often called ‘the first Heather Russell and Donna voice of the Harlem Weir-Soley; and St. Lucia’s Renaissance, protesting the Vladimir Lucien. social evils that plagued black people in the U.S. Patrick Smikle is a freelance The backlash, however, writer for Caribbean Today. Help Caribbean today to educate our children, didn’t slow the expansion of the Caribbean literary land - 4 and thereby providing a leg up for all. scape. Among the well-known Caribbean Today has established “The Caribbean Today Foundation, 200 South Biscayne Boulevard, Suite 505, Foundation for Journalistic and Healthcare Excellence” which Miami, FL 33131 will provide scholarships to students attending Miami Dade • Via Credit Card: miamifoundation.org/givenow. Choose the Chronixx, Shabba, Kes shine at first ‘D.C. College. Donations can be made in the following way: Fund from the dropdown menu and submit payment. Please • Via Check: Make checks payable to “The Miami Foundation” look for the Fund name Caribbean Today Foundation. World Reggae Festival’ and include the Fund name “The Caribbean Today • Please contact the Miami Foundation directly for cash wiring Foundation for Journalistic and Healthcare Excellence” in (Continued from page 15) time. or stock transfer instructions if needed. Yet, Stephenson said he the memo line of the check. 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States that focuses on issues The Trinidad and Tobago commu - Miami-Dade County will hold its and awards will be held this This gala will honor the impacting people of African nity at Christ the King Catholic Church 12th annual “Hispanic Heritage month in Washington, D.C. accomplishments of leaders in heritage and the global black in Perrine, Florida will hold a thanks - Festival” from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sept. The event, to be held in col - community development who community. giving mass and healing service on 15 at Country Village Park in Miami, laboration with the 48th annual primarily operate from a faith- For more information, visit Sept. 16 and 17 to celebrate the twin Florida. legislative conferences of the based perspective, targeting www.cafblc.com . island republic’s 56th Independence. For more information, call Congressional Black Caucus major issues including religious 4 Father Raymond Francis from Jordan’s office at 305-474-3011 . (CBC) Convention, is scheduled liberty, civil right, humanitarian Trinidad will be the celebrant. for Sept. 12-16 at the Walter E. concerns, social justice and eco - T&T’s Independence Day was BOMA awards Convention Center in Mount nomic development. Aug. 31. Agencies, businesses and individ - For more information, call uals who have made positive impact Lauderdale Lakes celebrates Caribbean Emancipation Day 305-898-7682 . in the black community will be hon - ored this month at the 2018 BOMA On Aug. 1, the annual Part one involved students British Empire. It is a public FANM plans D.C. trip to support Awards in South Florida. Caribbean Emancipation discussing the similarities holiday in several Caribbean The event, scheduled for 11:30 Day/Juneteenth Infusion cele - between Caribbean countries and, although the holi - TPS The Family Action Network Movement a.m. Sept. 20 , will be held at the bration was held at the Church Emancipation and Juneteenth. day commemorates events that Hilton Miami Airport hotel. of the Atonement in Lauderdale During a reception held later, took place on Aug. 1, 1834, it (FANM) has arranged a trip to Washington, D.C. this month, part of a For more information, visit Lakes, Florida. awards and recognition were may be celebrated on different www.bomalliance.com . The two-part event was presented by various digni - days depending on the country. campaign it says opposes the admin - hosted by the Greater taries. Rogers took the opportuni - istration of United States President Caribbean Bar gala Caribbean American Cultural The Caribbean ty to discuss both important hol - Donald Trump’s efforts to separate The Caribbean Bar Association will Coalition in association with the Emancipation Day holiday iday with some of the city’s families. hold its 22nd annual scholarship and city’s Mayor Hazelle Rogers. marks the end of slavery in the youth. Participants in the trip, scheduled awards gala on Oct. 13 at the Westin for Sept. 12-13 , will bring families to Fort Lauderdale Beach Resort. meet members of the U.S. Congress. Among the scheduled honorees Haitian American stalwart dies in South Florida Temporary protected status is being are John Kozyak, president’s award; The Haitian American com - recognized for his community Savannah, Georgia. revoked for more than 350,000 recipi - Broward County Commissioner Dale munity lost a giant contributor service, especially to the resi - He co-founded the ents11. V.C. Holness, civic advocate award; recently. dents of Miami-Dade County Haitian American Chamber of According to Haitian-born White and Case LLP, corporate citizen Daniel Fils-Aimé, founder in Florida. Commerce of Florida and was Marleine Bastien, FANM’s executive award; and Nadege Green, communi - of the Haitian American Fils-Aimé, who passed on founder/president of the director: “We must act promptly to ty guardian angel. Historical Society, has died. July 31, was known for his Miami Minibus Transportation protect the basic rights of due process For more information, visit He was 76. role in helping to erect the Service Inc. of immigrants.” www.caribbeanbar.org. In the Haitian American “Chasseurs Volontaires de St. 4 4 community, Fils-Aimé was Dominique” monument in OFANA PLANTS POSITIVE SEED

The Ole Farmers Association North America Inc. (OFANA) recently held its 12th annual general meeting in Orlando Florida. OFANA underlined its commitment to Jamaica’s agriculture industry, national food security and to positioning the College of Agriculture Science and Education (CASE) as the premier tertiary agriculture college in the Caribbean and the world. Among those who attended the recent meeting were OFANA President Norma Jarrett, at podium and, from left, Renford Williams, Donna Bredwood, Jennifer Petgrave, Jamaica’s Minister of Education Ruel Reid, Doreen Danvers, Audrey Spence, Jurist Taylor, Peterson Warburton, Wendell Codner and Dr. Derrick Deslandes. Reid was the keynote speaker at the event. OFANA said it donated $100,000 in one year for plant tissue culture lab at CASE. Over 10,416,000 copies printed and delivered in 29 years CARIBBEAN TODAY • SEPTEMBER 2018 • 19 SPORTS Jamaica to play Ecuador in soccer friendly in U.S. KNOCK DEM DOWN! GORDON WILLIAMS playing on the ninth,” Ricketts considerations. said “The federation has always A Caribbean nation will be fea - According to Ricketts, indicated it’s more cost effective tured in a friendly soccer inter - Jamaica “will be bringing in to play away from home,” national to be played in the some overseas explained Simpson. United States this month. players,” He added that Ecuador Jamaica will face Ecuador including from made the offer to play in the on Sept. 7 at the Red Bulls England and U.S. The large communities Stadium in Harrison, New North America, which support both teams was Jersey. especially for also a determining factor in The match, according to the Ecuador deciding the venue. representatives of the Jamaica game. “There’s a strong Football Federation (JFF), is However, he Caribbean community in the added, “the U.S., along with a strong aimed at helping to prepare the Ricketts Reggae Boyz for the CONCA - core of our Spanish-speaking community,” CAF Nations League and 2019 team will be Simpson said. Gold Cup. made up, essentially, of our The game is being played Two days after the Ecuador home-based players,” for the during an official window pro - clash, Jamaica will open its Nations League. vided for international teams by Numerous Jamaica national soccer’s governing body FIFA, - Photograph by © CWI Media/Randy Brooks of Brooks Latouche Photography Nations League schedule at West Indies players Ashley Nurse, right, and captain Carlos Braithwaite celebrate the home. According to JFF players are members of profes - which allows players selected sional clubs in the U.S., includ - for “friendlies” to become avail - fall of a wicket as the Caribbean cricket team faced Bangladesh in a Twenty20 President Michael Ricketts, International at Central Broward Regional Park in Lauderhill, Florida recently. Jamaica has a plan to deal with ing Major League Soccer and able for release from their club the awkward scheduling. United Soccer Leagues. to represent their country. Kickoff time for Jamaica v. MANEUVER COST Ecuador is 8 p.m. E.T. The two Jamaica senior men’s team nations have played before in BRIEFS “We will be able to maneu - CPL shines in South Florida Bolt starts pro soccer career ver, in an effective way, so that manager Roy Simpson told New Jersey, drawing 0-0 in a Caribbean Today that the JFF’s friendly international on Aug. Some of the region’s top cricket Jamaican Usain Bolt, who retired we have a different squad play - talent was on show last month during from track after dominating the sprints, ing on the seventh (of motive for playing in the U.S. is 12, 2009. based primarily on economic Caribbean Premier League (CPL) games has vowed to prove detractors wrong September) and another squad 4 played at Central Broward Regional Park as he starts a new career in profes - Stadium in South Florida. sional soccer. The Guyana Amazon Warriors beat The 32-year-old last month signed Florida-based swimmer to get Jamaica national honor Jamaica Tallawahs, which also lost to a contract with Australian A-League club KINGSTON, Jamaica – South “So proud Caribbean and swimmers of Trinbago Knight Riders and Barbados Central Coast Mariners. Florida-based swimmer Alia and humbled color.” Tridents at the venue. “People will say a lot of things Atkinson, the first black to be consid - In a later interview with about me, but I’ll prove them wrong,” U.S. market right for CPL ~ DaSilva said Bolt. woman to win a world cham - ered, much SportsMax.TV , Atkinson, who Paul DaSilva, former president of pionship title, will be honored less actually be recently won three gold and the Nassau New York Cricket Caribbean missing from soccer’s with the order of distinction in awarded a two bronze medals at the Association, wants to see more Hero top 50 the rank of commander on CD,” she said CAC Games in Colombia, Caribbean Premier League (CPL) games Caribbean nations failed to crack Jamaica’s National Heroes’ on social said she never believed she played in the United States. the top 50 best soccer teams globally, Day, Oct. 15. media last Atkinson would have achieved such a DaSilva, a Guyanese-born according to FIFA, the game’s governing Atkinson, 29, won the month. feat. American citizen, said he believes the body, in its first release of rankings fol - 100-meter butterfly for “I have been told no mat - CPL had the power to increase the lowing the 2018 World Cup. Jamaica at the 2014 Short “Swimming is blossoming ter the dream, God will use sport’s popularity in the U.S. and called Jamaica is the region’s highest Course Championships in once again in Jamaica and I you and make it incredible,” for more stadiums to be built in other rated nation at 54. Doha. The Olympian said she look forward to being a part she said. areas where there is a strong West Indian community. - Compiled from various sources. was honored to be receiving a of the wave of athletes that 4 national award. are paving a path for the 4 CELEBRATION TIME Attention local businesses. A website was created just for you.

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